Sept. 12, 2011
Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-190
EXPEDITION 30/31 SPACE STATION CREW CONDUCTS BRIEFING, INTERVIEWS
HOUSTON -- Three International Space Station crew members will discuss
their upcoming Expedition 30 and 31 missions in a news conference at
1 p.m. CDT Tuesday, Sept. 20, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in
Houston. The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and
the agency's website. Reporters may ask questions from participating
NASA centers or by phone.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and
European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are set to launch to
the station aboard a Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft later this year. They
will round out the six-man crew aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Following the news conference, round-robin interview opportunities are
available in-person, by phone or via satellite. To reserve an
interview opportunity, U.S. media representatives must contact the
Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16.
To participate in the news conference from a NASA center, U.S.
journalists must call the center's public affairs office by 5 p.m.
local time on Monday, Sept. 19. Reporters participating in the
briefing by phone must call the Johnson newsroom by 12:45 p.m. on
Tuesday, Sept. 20. Priority will be given to media participating in
person and questions from reporters on the phone will be taken as
time permits.
International journalists wishing to attend in person at Johnson must
contact the newsroom and submit the required paperwork for
credentials by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers are three of six crew members who will
comprise Expeditions 30 and 31. Aboard the station, they will join
NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov
and Anatoli Ivanishin.
The NASA Live Interview Media Outlet (LIMO) that will be used for
satellite interviews following the news conference is a digital
satellite C-band downlink by uplink provider Americom. It is on
satellite AMC 3, transponder 9C, located at 87 degrees west, downlink
frequency 3865.5 Mhz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink
polarity, FEC is 3/4, data rate is 6.0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4.3404
Msps, transmission DVB-S, 4:2:0.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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